ononno

If a pizza is not made in a wood fired, dusty, black with soot, pizza oven; served slightly burnt at the edges on a bare table with a dubious vintage bottle of beer, a paper napkin, and no cutlery; it is not a genuine pizza. 'e tu vuliva a' pizza cu' pommarola 'ncoppa.'
bye bye dicette l'inglese

Pica

I absolutely love the burnt bits-they're the best part!

linseed oil

i went dancing and eat to much pizza for my waist line or is it know a waste deposal line , yea and i done a bit o line dancing . oh well i must be dead but god them pizias were good

sunnysider

When the Italian partner is in the UK she always makes a bee line for the pizzas with pineapple which I'd always understood to be a cardinal sin in the eyes of the Italian pizza god. Says she can't get them in Italy.

Folks got any views on this?

I wouldn't eat such a thing - I long ago decided after extensive that the Quattro Stagioni was the one for me. So after that it's just down to the talents of the individual pizzeria.

37100

Love Hawaiian pizza. The only place I can indulge in one is lake Garda.

ononno

OMG, don't tell me such a thing actually exists.

37100

OH apologises when I order one.

Garbatellamike

It does seem wrong somehow

My preference is diavola but I have now given up pizza as Mark says it will kill me

duffer

I burnt 600 calories last night.

Left the pizza in the oven too long.

ononno

Well yes, it's even worse than putting mayonnaise on fish and chips

MarkRD

Remembered that Report did a similar thing on the espresso coffees served in bars . .didn't kill anyone or even the industry as far as I know.

HADENOUGHPIZZA

I gave up watching Report because by thetime you've got over the shock of one episode its time for the next .....

sunnysider

Almost forgot. That great Italian god, the author of pinnochio, wrote a book in which one of the characters described pizza in the most disgusting terms, seeing it as a filthy dish which reflected very badly on both the cuisine and the people who cooked or ate it. Whilst i didn't agree with it all (I love proper Italian pizza) for quite a while I used to keep the quotation to hand in case the odd Italian indulged in a diatribe against other cuisines which went beyond a cookery critique and became pure racism. Not unknown unfortunately.

I have lost the quotation but perhaps someone may know it/be able to point/link to it. It used to be available via a bit of ckever googling I think.

BRIAN 1

hi,i think the whole story is a cover up to protect the local mafia when flytipping toxic waste in pizza flour,cheers brian.

sunnysider

Here you are folks.

Quote from carlo collodi.



"Do you want to know what pizza is? It is a focaccia made from leavened bread dough which is toasted in the oven. On top of it they put a sauce with a little bit of everything. When its colours are combined -- the black of the toasted bread, the sickly white of the garlic and anchovy, the greeny-yellow of the oil and fried greens, and the bits of red here and there from the tomato -- they make pizza look like a patchwork of greasy filth that harmonises perfectly with the appearance of the person selling it."